HUMANITIES & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE

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Humanities & Contemporary Culture
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Humanities & Contemporary Culture


Under current contemporary culture conditions, humanities and creative expression have witnessed dramatic changes in media, mode and meanings of creation and delivery. In a pre-Internet era, paper-based creativity, particularly in literary professions such as novel and short story writing, has been a dominant media, mode and meaning-making of expression, in addition to TV and radio. The space of imagination – and creativity – a few set of media and modes of expressions on paper, TV and radio has, in fact, set certain expectations about what to expect from each medium and, perhaps more importantly, acceptable conventions creators – and consumers – of humanities and creative expression are expected to abide by. In an Internet (and, for that matter, a post-Internet) era, however, online platforms, mobility devices, social media, and Internet of Things (IoT) are radically changing ways humanities and cr...